Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Murray resolution was adopted, 33 to 11. Then Phil Murray did something he had never done before. He made the left-wingers stand up and be counted. If the time ever came-and it might come before the 1948 campaign was over -when Phil Murray felt it necessary to boot these left-wingers out of the C.I.O., he would have a black & white record to use against the likes of Harry Bridges, the Transport Workers' Mike Quill and the United Electrical Workers' Al Fitzgerald...
...Manhattan Wit Franklin P. Adams. Temperatures were even lower elsewhere in the U.S.: at Montpelier Junction, Vt. it was 45° below, and Gordon, Wis. was almost paralyzed at 54° below. Most of the U.S., from the Rockies to the Atlantic and south to Texas, Louisiana and Florida, felt the severest cold of an extremely severe winter...
...taken, still, with salt, but they do their job. From here we may shift to another plane altogether. If may recollection is correct, the names of Harvard's German war dead in World War I are listed in Memorial Church largely because the editors of the CRIMSON in 1931 felt and insisted that Harvard, as a great human institution devoted to truth, should regard war as a monstrous tragedy visited upon all the participants, regardless of boundary lines. This argument is a good deal touchier nowadays than it was in 1931, but the generous force of it remains to assure...
...controversy in the CRIMSON began during my junior year. Some of the members of the board of editors, including myself, felt that the CRIMSON had been losing a little ground during the difficult years of depression. We were anxious to make it a better paper and to attract the ablest editors from each class...
After we lost the election some of my colleagues determined to try the experiment of a rival newspaper. I gave my support to this venture but took no active part in it, so the story of the Harvard Journal must come from someone else. I never felt that there was room for two papers at Harvard and, so far as I personally was concerned, I hoped that, if the Journal had succeeded, the two papers would soon have been merged under the name of the CRIMSON. This was not to be, as the Journal barely lived through the spring...